4 MONOCOTYLEDONEÆ. PHILYDRELLA. 
losa, testa extremitatibus incrassata. Embryo amygdala dimidio bre- 
vior (V. s. s.). 
‘In uliginosis : Ins. Andaman et Tenasserim (Helfer !) ; Birma et 
Penins. Malay (Griffith !); Malacca (Gaudichaud !) ; Canton (Hance); 
Hongkong (Seemann, Leclancher !, Wright !) ad Saywan (Bentham): 
Cochinchina (Loureiro, Miquel); Manilla (Cuming!); Australia ad 
Port Darwin (Schultz), in Queensland ad Cape York (Dacmal), Port 
Curtis (M'Gillivray), Rockingham Bay (Dallachy), Rockhampton 
(Bowman! ete.), Broad Sound, Keppel Bay, Sandy Cape (R. Brown), 
in New South Wales ad Mount Elliott (Fitzalan), New England 
(C. Stuart !), Richmond River (Hodgkinson!), Clarence River (Wil- 
cox), Shoalwater Bay (R. Brown), Hastings River (Beckler), Port 
Jackson (R. Brown!, Gaudichaud !), Botany Bay (Verreaux!, Mas- 
man), in Victoria ad Wimmera (Wilhelmi). — Fl. ad finem æstatis in 
hemisphæro boreali, hyemis in australi. 
II. PHILYDRELLA Car. in Nuov. giorn. bot. ital. 10, p. 91 (1878). 
— Philydri sp. E. Br. Prodr. fl. Nov.- Holl. 1, p. 264, et plurimo- 
rum auctorum. posteriorum supra cit. — Hetæria Endl. Gen. pl. 
p. 133 (1837), nec Blume Bijdr. p. 410 (1825) (Eteria), et 
Fl. Jav. p. 7 (1828) (Hetæria); Kunth Enum. pl. 3, p. 380; 
Meisn. Pl. vasc. gen. pars 1, p. 406, pars alt. p. 310; Endl. in 
Lehm. Pl. Preiss. 2, p. 45. — Pritzelia F. Muell.! Descr. notes on 
pap. pl. p. 13 (1875), nec Walp: Rep. bot. syst. 2, p. 428 (1843), - 
nec Schauer in Flora 1843, p. 407, nec Klotzsch in Akad. d. Wiss. 
zu Berlin p. 126 (1854) ; Benth. Fl. austr. 7, p. 74. 
Tepala interiora cum staminis filamento coniuncta. Anthera reni- 
formis, introrsa. Fructus septifragum. 
P. pygmæa. — Philydrum pygmæum E. Br. Prodr. fl. Nov. 
Holl. p. 265; Poir. Enc. méth. suppl. 4, p. 393; Eom. et Schult. 
Syst. veg. 1, p. 38; Spreng. Linn. syst. veg. 1, p. 18; Dietr. Willd. 
sp. pl 1, p. 83, et Syn. pl. 1, p. 25. — Hetæria pygmæa Kunth 
Enum. pk 3, p. 380; Endl. in Lehm. Pl. Preiss. 2, p. 45; Steud. 
Syn. glum. 2, p. 314. — Pritzelia pygmæa Benth. Fl. austr. 7, 
p. 74. — Ie. Lindl. Veg. kingd. ed. 2, p. 186. 
Herba 8-15 centim. alta, glabra. Caulis simplex, tenuis, aiii 
cus. Folia duo, subulata, erecta, alterum basilare elongatum vagina 
inferne clausa, alterum caulinare multo brevius, vagina aperta. 
Spica terminalis, 2-2 '/, centim. longa, 2-4-flora. Bracteæ concavæ, 
